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<Pion> · 06-01-2006, 12:06 PM

My first impression after playing most of the evening last night is the excessive number of career ending injuries. Don't know if it changes based on the period played, but I started a league in 1905 and it's now up to 1940. I only have two hitters with over 2500 hits. All others superstars came up with career ending injuries that stopped them with around 1500 to 2000 hits. The list includes Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Nap Lajoie, Zack Wheat, Joe Evans (not a household name but he hit .400 twice in my test league), Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Charlie Hollocher, Rogers Hornsby, and about 5 others I've noticed but forgot. This doesn't even include the ones I've yet to notice.

I like having realistic injuries and if this is realistic then so be it. It's just amazing to see that nobody (except two) that are good enough to get 2500 hits do because of injury. One point of interest is that one of the guys to get over 2500 hits ended up leading the league with over 3200 hits and played until he was 46 (Fred Merkle). So it's possible to have a long career but highly unlikely. But that can probably be said about that time period. Don't know about more modern examples.

06-01-2006, 12:06 PM	#8
<Pion> All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,428	My first impression after playing most of the evening last night is the excessive number of career ending injuries. Don't know if it changes based on the period played, but I started a league in 1905 and it's now up to 1940. I only have two hitters with over 2500 hits. All others superstars came up with career ending injuries that stopped them with around 1500 to 2000 hits. The list includes Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Nap Lajoie, Zack Wheat, Joe Evans (not a household name but he hit .400 twice in my test league), Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Charlie Hollocher, Rogers Hornsby, and about 5 others I've noticed but forgot. This doesn't even include the ones I've yet to notice. I like having realistic injuries and if this is realistic then so be it. It's just amazing to see that nobody (except two) that are good enough to get 2500 hits do because of injury. One point of interest is that one of the guys to get over 2500 hits ended up leading the league with over 3200 hits and played until he was 46 (Fred Merkle). So it's possible to have a long career but highly unlikely. But that can probably be said about that time period. Don't know about more modern examples.